Project Stick In The Mud :-)

[Arthur Pemberton]

2008/8/10 Russell Miller <duskglow at gmail.com>:
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> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Russell Miller <duskglow at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 18:43 -0700, Russell Miller wrote:
>>> > What gets me is that it's an integrated soundchip.  Usually those are
>>> > pretty well supported, at least in basics.
>>>
>>> Out of curiousity, what soundchip is it? What does lspci say it is? What
>>> kind of motherboard is it on?
>>
>> It's an Azalia on a AMD K9A Platinum.
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>
> OK, sorry guys, but I'm going to reply to my own post, because I just found
> a perfect example of why I feel like the whole thing is going down the
> tubes.
>
> I ran alsa-info.
>
> First it tells me that it's going to automatically upload the results to a
> pastebin site, then it asks me if I want to continue to run the script.
> Strike 1.  It should have defaulted to no, and just ran.  It's just
> outputting info, there's no need to protect me from myself.
>
> Next, I run with the --no-upload option, cursing the damn thing out while I
> do, and then it asks me again, do I want to run the script?  Yeah I want to
> run the script, I *typed the command*.  What is it protecting me from???
>
> So then, it runs, and outputs the data into a file.  Into a *file*?  WTF
> happened to the unix idiom of sending things to stdout unless you
> specifically give it a "-f" option?
>
> I know you guys don't write alsa.  I'm not saying you're responsible for
> this.  What I am saying is that for a long time sysadmin like me, this is
> really a step backwards.  I just want to debug a fricking pulseaudio/alsa
> problem.  Don't protect me from myself when the worst that's going to happen
> is that I get stuff printed to the screen that I don't care about.
>
> I haven't done a whole lot of exploration of Fedora 9 lately, I've been busy
> at work with Centos.  It is ALL like this???


This seems like very poor behavior, I hope you report it.

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